Tuesday is going to be a looooooong day!

[plthijinx]

this afternoon, sitting in my cube dwelling mike from the flight school called and said he had an "emergency" and could i take tomorrow off (tuesday). sure i said, what's the deal? here it is: i launch at 6 am tomorrow morning in our long range cessna 172 (12 hour endurance) to be callsign "relay1" and my mission, thanks to katrina, is to go to 10,000 feet and relay messages from the helecopters offshore to their base in abbeville louisiana because they lost their communications tower during the storm. this is going to be at least 10 hours of relay messaging and then another couple just to get in position and back. that's 868 bucks worth of free time give or take! woohoo! oh, and i'll try and remember my camera to take what pictures of the storms aftermath but i doubt there will be very much to see from FL100.